This is another science gone wrong movie. There's really nothing new about this near dud of a film except for some very dated CGI (but it's nonetheless interesting). It's pretty dumb, and save for the solid performance by Pierce Brosnan, there wouldn't be anything to save this movie from going to the direct-to-video bin.
Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) is on the verge of a fundamental breakthrough: he is on the verge of being able to use virtual reality to increase a person's intelligence. However, his private funders want him to use this for military, which Angelo only agrees to so he can get funding to do his own research in the near future. After an experiment goes wrong because of his donor's pressure, he performs his experiments in his home. He decides to use virtual reality to increase the intelligence of a mentally retarded lawnmower man named Job (Jeff Fahey). The experiments work better than Angelo could have hoped, but when his funders find out about it, they want Job to be used for the military testing, and they'll do anything to convince Angelo to do it.
There isn't a single original moment in this film, and apart from Brosnan, little else to recommend it. The direction is flat, and the acting is of low-quality. Most of the minuscule budget was probably spent on the special effects, and it shows.
He may have been the James Bond of the 90's but Pierce Brosnan is not a one-note actor. He's easily the best thing about this movie, in fact, he's the only thing really worth noting about it (you can see most of the visuals are easily seen in the trailer). Jeff Fahey is solid, if over the top when he's the mentally slow Job, but he fails to chill when he goes crazy. The story tries to add some inner conflict to this part, but it doesn't really work. No one else is very memorable.
The main selling point of this movie was the computer graphics, and although they are creative, they are horribly dated. This isn't a bad movie, but it's not a very good one.
Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) is on the verge of a fundamental breakthrough: he is on the verge of being able to use virtual reality to increase a person's intelligence. However, his private funders want him to use this for military, which Angelo only agrees to so he can get funding to do his own research in the near future. After an experiment goes wrong because of his donor's pressure, he performs his experiments in his home. He decides to use virtual reality to increase the intelligence of a mentally retarded lawnmower man named Job (Jeff Fahey). The experiments work better than Angelo could have hoped, but when his funders find out about it, they want Job to be used for the military testing, and they'll do anything to convince Angelo to do it.
There isn't a single original moment in this film, and apart from Brosnan, little else to recommend it. The direction is flat, and the acting is of low-quality. Most of the minuscule budget was probably spent on the special effects, and it shows.
He may have been the James Bond of the 90's but Pierce Brosnan is not a one-note actor. He's easily the best thing about this movie, in fact, he's the only thing really worth noting about it (you can see most of the visuals are easily seen in the trailer). Jeff Fahey is solid, if over the top when he's the mentally slow Job, but he fails to chill when he goes crazy. The story tries to add some inner conflict to this part, but it doesn't really work. No one else is very memorable.
The main selling point of this movie was the computer graphics, and although they are creative, they are horribly dated. This isn't a bad movie, but it's not a very good one.